scop
an Old English bard or poet.
Origin of scop
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The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers.
A Bundle of Ballads | VariousThe "scop" or Geeman's song, and others, exhibit similar instances of this confusion of personages and dates.
On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire | Charles HardwickNo; there was the way Wyman had responded perfectly under scop.
The Syndic | C.M. KornbluthThe reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersIn "Deor" we have another picture of the Saxon scop, or minstrel, not in glad wandering, but in manly sorrow.
English Literature | William J. Long
British Dictionary definitions for scop
/ (skɒp) /
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel
Origin of scop
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